Friday 30th October is Equal Pay Day

By Helen G | 30 October 2009, 07:45

Friday 30th October is Equal Pay Day, a day of action lead by the Fawcett Society to draw attention to the fact that, on average, women’s full time mean hourly pay is 17.1% less than men’s. 30th October symbolically marks…

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Launch of the Transgender Resource and Empowerment Centre, Manchester, 7 November

By Helen G | 25 October 2009, 16:30

IMPORTANT NEWS FOR THE NW TRANS COMMUNITY Saturday November 7th 2009 You are invited to the launch of TREC - an innovative new Trans Resource & Empowerment Centre for all trans and gender variant people in the North West (&…

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EHRC - Trans inequalities reviewed

By Helen G | 21 October 2009, 20:55

The Equality and Human Rights Commmission (EHRC) has published its Research Report 27: Trans Research Review, a review of evidence on the inequalities and high levels of discrimination faced by trans people in Britain. This includes such things as: attitudes…

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Murdered woman’s flat set alight; cis man arrested

By Helen G | 19 October 2009, 14:32

I know I’m a bit late with this one, but the media coverage - primarily in the Daily Mail, but also by BBC News - is, quite frankly, really starting to irritate me and I really have to rant a…

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Fifth Carnival of Feminists is up!

By Helen G | 30 September 2009, 19:16

Ace blogger and writer Chally has put together a fantastic Fifth Carnival of Feminists for our enjoyment. She’s hosting it over at her blog Zero At The Bone and with a host of links to click, there’s no shortage of…

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Sex work and sexuality group blog launch

By Helen G | 3 September 2009, 12:41

The sex work and sexuality group blog which I mentioned last week has now been launched as planned. It’s called Harlot’s Parlour and can be reached via this link. From Caroline’s introductory post on the site (link here): In the…

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Pakistan’s undesirables: ‘Dealing with’ the hijra problem

By Helen G | 28 August 2009, 11:40

There’s a thought-provoking post over at Sherryx’s Weblog (link here) about the hijra community in Pakistan. (T-Vox carries this definition of hijra: “In the culture of the Indian subcontinent a hijra is a physically male or intersex person who is…

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Sex work and sexuality group blog

By Helen G | 25 August 2009, 14:45

Via Caroline at Loserdust (link here): Sex work and sexuality group blog I am in the midst of setting up a group blog for sex workers and allies about, as the title of this post suggests, sex work and sexuality….

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Feminist Carnival #2 is up

By Helen G | 24 August 2009, 16:50

The second Feminist Carnival - “a reinvention of the original Carnival of Feminists” - is up at the Female Impersonator group blog, thanks to Lindsay and Amelia’s hard work. In the tradition of the original (now dormant) Carnival of Feminists…

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Iris Film Prize 2009 now open for submissions

By Helen G | 12 January 2009, 14:55

The Iris Film Prize is now open for submissions for the 2009 Festival. The Festival itself will be held in Cardiff from 7 - 10 October 2009 and there will be three awards, as follows: Iris Prize - Cardiff’s International…

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“Discrimination against transgender persons must no longer be tolerated”

By Helen G | 8 January 2009, 13:35

“Transgender persons encounter severe problems in their daily lives as their identity is met with insensitivity, prejudice or outright rejection” says Commissioner Hammarberg [the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights] in his latest Viewpoint. Analysing the various difficulties transgender…

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